In the fifth episode of our commercial banking takeover, Alan Koenigsberg, founder of Koenigsberg Insights and former Global Head at Visa, sits down with guest host Alex Jimenez to share how banks can modernize working capital, embedded finance, and B2B infrastructure. This episode is packed with insight into scaling safely, transforming legacy systems, and building operational models that last.
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Timestamps
(00:00) – Welcome to the “Banking Reinvented” commercial banking takeover
(00:57) – Blind spots in commercial payments
(02:34) – Embedded finance and working capital innovation
(05:02) – Managing credit profiles with data
(07:06) – Best ways to approach digital transformation
(12:27) – Over-engineering and under-investing in commercial payments
(15:28) – Selling a solution vs. selling a rail/capability
(19:11) – Trends on how banks get treasury digitization wrong
(22:34) – Leveraging AI in commercial payments
(27:20) – Crypto’s impact on the commercial/cross-border space
(30:36) – Using quantum computing to build quickly and safely
(36:13) – Macro forces shaping the next wave of working capital innovation
(40:38) – Top three priorities for treasury and payments
(44:57) – The biggest disconnect between fintech partnerships and long-term value creation
(47:53) – Key takeaway from Alan
(49:47) – Episode wrap-up
